Fretting Wear and Fretting Fatigue: Fundamental Principles and Applications

Fretting Wear and Fretting Fatigue takes a combined mechanics and materials approach, providing readers with a fundamental understanding of fretting phenomena, related modeling and experimentation techniques, methods for mitigation, and robust examples of practical applications across an array of engineering disciplines. The book starts by discussing the underpinning theories of fretting wear and fretting fatigue, looking at their histories and the similarities and differences between each. The next section then delves into experimentation and modeling methods, including combined approaches, with the aim of improving engineering design and practices through controlling fretting fatigue and fretting wear. The book concludes with a section covering a broad array of applications of fretting fatigue and fretting wear, looking at its impacts in medical implants, suspension ropes, bearings, heating exchangers, electrical connectors, and more.